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by c00p3r 6110 days ago
epoll() matters.
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jwecker 6110 days ago
... to tornado.
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superjared 6110 days ago
Erlang uses epoll on Linux, kqueue on BSDs, et cetera.
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jwecker 6110 days ago
Understood. There just seem to be a lot of complaints that the system he used for benchmarking didn't have epoll and that Tornado was slow because of select. I agree. But Erlang on that machine obviously didn't use epoll either.
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